English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use (Varieties of English Around the World)

✍ Scribed by Ee-Ling Low (editor), Azirah Hashim (editor)

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 409
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume provides a first systematic, comprehensive account of English in Southeast Asia (SEA) based on current research by leading scholars in the field. The volume first provides a systematic account of the linguistic features across all sub-varieties found within each country. It also has a section dedicated to the historical context and language planning policies to provide a background to understanding the development of the linguistic features covered in Part I and, finally, the vibrancy of the sociolinguistic and pragmatic realities that govern actual language in use in a wide variety of domains such as the law, education, popular culture, electronic media and actual pragmatic encounters are also given due coverage. This volume also includes an extensive bibliography of works on English in SEA, thus providing a useful and valuable resource for language researchers, linguists, classroom educators, policy makers and anyone interested in the topic of English in SEA or World Englishes as a whole.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
chapter 1:
Theoretical issues
part I: Features
chapter 2:
Singapore English
chapter 3:
Malaysian English
chapter 4:
Brunei English
chapter 5:
Philippine English
chapter 6:
Thai English
chapter 7:
Hong Kong English
part II:
Policy (Historical context & languageplanning)
chapter 8:
The development of English in Singapore
chapter 9: Pragmatics of maintaining English
in Malaysia’s education system
chapter 10: Language planning in its historical
context in Brunei Darussalam
chapter 11:
Diffusion and directions
chapter 12: The effect of policy on English
language teaching at secondary schools in Thailand
chapter 13:
Language policy and planning in Hong Kong
part III:
Language in use
chapter 14:
English in Southeast Asian law
chapter 15:
The view from below
chapter 16:
Curriculum and world Englishes
chapter 17:
English in Southeast Asian pop culture
chapter 18:
Language use in the construction of interpersonal relationships
chapter 19:
Transfers of politeness strategies
part IV:
Bibliography
chapter 20: Works on English in Southeast Asia
Author index
Subject index